Merry Christmas!

We had a very Merry Christmas at the Hylton house!!

We kicked things off on Christmas Eve Eve (Wednesday) by baking some cookies for Santa.  Ollie was already asleep and Eric went to bed so Elle and I stayed up late baking and listening to Christmas music.  Hundreds of sprinkles were spilled on the floor and we had a great time!

Elle wanted to leave a couple cookies for Elfie to enjoy.  After we cleaned up, brushed her teeth and I was getting her ready for bed she wanted to run into the foyer to see if Elfie had ate his cookies yet. I just love this age!

Christmas Eve was spent cleaning (I love need a clean house before present opening), wrapping last minute presents and making sure both babies had a decent nap before church.  Side note ~ we had a couple windows open on Christmas Eve.  The warm weather we had last week was crazy!

Ollie was in no mood for pictures before church.  

The cutest babies I know!

We need more girls in our family, I'm counting on Will and Paige to make that happen!

After church we went to Eric's parents house for dinner and presents.  I'm terrible about taking pictures there but we had a fun time. Elle, Harper and Oliver tore through their presents and helped Grandma Chris make brownie Santa hats.

Oliver went straight to bed when we got home but Elle stayed up to make sure the milk and cookies were set out for Santa!

She also left a couple carrots and a bowl of water on the front porch for the reindeer. 

Santa came!

Ollie boy was the first one up to see what Santa had left.

Elle loved the nativity that Santa brought our family.

This little boy.  I could just squeeze him!!!

We had a slow, lazy morning.  Eric made breakfast, we opened all our presents, played with toys, watched Christmas movies.  Perfect Christmas morning!

Oliver gave Elle this cowboy hat and she loves it!

Around 3:30 we went to my parents house for more celebrating.

These two were so ready to tear into these big gifts!

Big kid bikes for the two big kids!

Elle was so excited, she kept telling me, "this bike is for big big girls".  

And Henry kept telling Elle, "Your bike is pretty big but it's pretty small too.  My bike is bigger".

These two are like siblings!

They immediately took them outside for a test drive.

Elle needs some practice but Hen pretty much has it down!

After riding their bikes we went back inside to open all the presents. Mom and Dad once again went way overboard and completely spoiled us and our kids. 

This is Elle at the end of the night in her Anna pj's (over her jeans) playing with her new iPad from MawMaw and PawPaw.  It's one of those little doodle screens that you can write on but she insists it's an iPad. 

We had such a fun day and I'm so sad that it's already over!  There is nothing better than a Christmas with little kids!